Raising Hope needs a memory reset, as Virginia (Martha Plimpton) says of an increasingly dotty Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman) in the delayed fourth-season opener of one of TV’s more refreshing, original comedies.

Joe Carroll is having a bad day. The brainy academic, serial murder, cult leader and Edgar Allan Poe obsessive has had a wine bottle broken over his head and been stabbed in the side with a dinner fork by his ex-wife.

Those were the days. Or nights, to be more exact.
In an outing of The Carrie Diaries called Hush, Hush, the young Carrie Bradshaw — played with an expressive, boundless charm and energy by actual teenager AnnaSophia Robb — uses a junior-senior lock-in as cover for a night out on the town in Manhattan.

The Carrie Diaries, in which ingenue AnnaSophia Robb plays Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw as a 16-year-old high-school junior in suburban Connecticut in the early ’80s, is theoretically a prequel, but it has little in common with the HBO series that, for a time, redefined the way young women watched TV comedy.